Bob Truby sat on the bench, tears burning in his eyes.

The pain from a kidney stone was dulled by Demerol, but the pain from sitting on the bench as his teammates wrestled Iowa remained. The wrestling team didn't take an extra 126-pounder, so it forfeited six points to Iowa in the semifinals of the National Dual Meet Championships.

Truby's teammates overcame the deficit to tie Iowa, 19-19, and advance to the finals on critieria A, greatest number of individual victories. Next they faced Oklahoma State, the defending national champion.

Truby knew that match would be harder, and he didn't want to sit on the bench. So he ignored the pain, decisioned No. 4 Tony Purler, and the Lions defeated Oklahoma State, 21-18, to win the national team championship.

"The pain was not so bad, it was not so much as to kill me," Truby said. "The team came through for me when I missed the Iowa match, and I said I'm not going to let them down."

Truby woke up at 6 a.m. Saturday and was taken to the hospital with pains. Doctors found a kidney stone and although they could not help him pass it, they gave him Demerol to ease the pain.

Physically, Truby was fine to wrestle against Iowa that afternoon, but mentally, he wasn't.

"I was a little wacked out and confused; I was feeling a little too good," he said.

Gradually the fuzziness wore off and Truby told Coach Rich Lorenzo he could wrestle that evening.

"I felt not so awake and aware, but I couldn't dwell on that or I'd go out there and lose," Truby said. "I went through my usual routine to get ready for a really big match."

Oklahoma State and Iowa entered the tournament ranked No. 1 and No. 2, with 14 wrestlers ranked in the top six. Penn State entered ranked No. 5 with two wrestlers ranked in the top six.

"I think we caught a couple of teams a little bit by surprise," Lorenzo said. "Our kids were so emotionally high and they really jelled together . . . It was just a neat feeling."

Heavyweight Marc Padwe, unranked by Amateur Wrestling News, defeated No. 7 John Oostendorp to win the Iowa match and tied No. 4 Kirk Mammen to clinch the victory over Oklahoma State.

"Gosh, he definitely was a big underdog, as was the team, but he saw the way the other guys wrestled and there was no way he was going to do anything to make the team lose," Lorenzo said.

Against Oostendorp, who defeated him Nov. 30 in Rec Hall, Padwe took control with a takedown in the first 15 seconds and held on for a 8-7 win.

"Everyone's yelling and screaming," Padwe said. "If you go out of bounds, or you feel tired, you look up and see nine other guys screaming, and you don't want to let down all your teammates. You just suck it up and go to it and push it out."

Mammen led Padwe, 4-2, midway through the second period, but Padwe nearly pinned Mammen and earned four points for a takedown and near fall. Padwe was warned for stalling near the end of the third period, and Mammen scored a takedown afterward to even the score, 7-7. Padwe then held off Mammen to end the match in a draw.

"I normally would have fought a little more, but I didn't want to give up points and cost the team the match," Padwe said.

"We were yelling out to him, 'A tie is as good as a win for us,' " Lorenzo said. "But if we needed a victory at heavyweight, and a tie would have lost it for us, I'm sure you would have seen Marc Padwe win that match."

Troy Sunderland, ranked No. 4 at 142 pounds, needed only 2:18 to pin Oklahoma State's Chuck Barbee, ranked No. 2, and earn six points for the Lions. Sunderland also defeated No. 3 Terry Steiner of Iowa and may be ranked No. 1 in the next poll.

"It was a pretty quick pin," said Sunderland, who expected a closer match. Sunderland defeated Barbee with a last-second take down in a freestyle match over the summer.

Sunderland's pin, which gave Penn State a 13-4 lead, saved the Lions from defeat when Dave Hart had to default at 167 because of a shoulder separation he suffered in the final seconds of the Iowa match.

"I had trouble lifting my arm before I wrestled," Hart said. "We tied up and the guy I was wrestling realized it was hurt and then he started pulling on it."

Hart will be x-rayed today to determine the extent of the damage, but he is expected to sit out two to four weeks.

Matt White and Frank Buchman are also expected to sit out two to four weeks with injuries. White sprained his knee -- not the one reconstructed -- against Oklahoma State. Buchman may have dislocated some bones in his foot against Iowa; he will be x-rayed tomorrow to see if any bones were chipped.

"It was a very expensive victory," Lorenzo said.